TY - BOOK
T1 - Organisational factors: Their definition and influence on nuclear safety: Final report
T2 - Contract No. ERB FI4S-CT98_0051
AU - Baumont, Genevieve
AU - Wahlström, Björn
AU - Sola, Rosario
AU - Williams, Jeremy
AU - Frischknecht, Albert
AU - Wilpert, Bernhard
AU - Rollenhagen, Carl
N1 - Project code: AUTY9521
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The importance of organisational factors in the
operational safety and efficiency of nuclear power plants
(NPP) has been recognised by many organisations around
the world. Despite this recognition, however, there are
as yet very few methods by which organisational factors
can be systematically assessed and improved. The majority
of research efforts applied so far have tended to be
modest and scattered. The ORFA*) project was created as a
remedy to these problems.
The objective of the project is to create a better
understanding of how organisation and management factors
influence nuclear safety. A key scientific objective of
the project is to identify components of a theoretical
framework, which would help in understanding the
relationships between organisational factors and nuclear
safety.
Three work packages were planned. First, a review of
literature listed out the identified factors and methods
for assessing them. Then, a draft version of the present
report was prepared to clarify the environment context
and the main issues of the topics. This draft was
discussed at the ORFA seminar in Madrid 21-22 October
1999. During the seminar views and comments were
collected on preliminary results of the project. Finally,
this information has been integrated in the present and
other reports and will be used to give further guidance
to the European Commission in the development of
forthcoming research programmes in the field. The project
has addressed nuclear safety taking a broad perspective,
which reflected and took into account the views of senior
NPP management and regulators.
The questions discussed during the project have been:
- how can organisational factors be included in safety
assessments,
- how can good and bad operational practices be
identified,
- which methods can be used for detecting weak signals of
deteriorating performance,
- how should incidents be analysed with respect to
organisational factors to give the largest learning
benefit,
- how can data on organisational performance be collected
and assessed in a systematic way,
- how can an organisation be developed in response to
changes in its operational environment,
- what are the needs and priorities for further research
work in organisational factors?
*)ORFA "Organisational Factors; their definition and
influence on nuclear safety" is a Concerted Action within
the Nuclear Fission Safety Programme which is running
under the Contract N° ERB FI4S-CT98_0051 of the European
Union between the seven partners VTT Automation, Finland,
CIEMAT, Spain, Nuclear Safety Directorate, United
Kingdom, HSK, Switzerland, IPSN France, Berlin University
of Technology, Germany and SwedPower Ltd, Sweden.
AB - The importance of organisational factors in the
operational safety and efficiency of nuclear power plants
(NPP) has been recognised by many organisations around
the world. Despite this recognition, however, there are
as yet very few methods by which organisational factors
can be systematically assessed and improved. The majority
of research efforts applied so far have tended to be
modest and scattered. The ORFA*) project was created as a
remedy to these problems.
The objective of the project is to create a better
understanding of how organisation and management factors
influence nuclear safety. A key scientific objective of
the project is to identify components of a theoretical
framework, which would help in understanding the
relationships between organisational factors and nuclear
safety.
Three work packages were planned. First, a review of
literature listed out the identified factors and methods
for assessing them. Then, a draft version of the present
report was prepared to clarify the environment context
and the main issues of the topics. This draft was
discussed at the ORFA seminar in Madrid 21-22 October
1999. During the seminar views and comments were
collected on preliminary results of the project. Finally,
this information has been integrated in the present and
other reports and will be used to give further guidance
to the European Commission in the development of
forthcoming research programmes in the field. The project
has addressed nuclear safety taking a broad perspective,
which reflected and took into account the views of senior
NPP management and regulators.
The questions discussed during the project have been:
- how can organisational factors be included in safety
assessments,
- how can good and bad operational practices be
identified,
- which methods can be used for detecting weak signals of
deteriorating performance,
- how should incidents be analysed with respect to
organisational factors to give the largest learning
benefit,
- how can data on organisational performance be collected
and assessed in a systematic way,
- how can an organisation be developed in response to
changes in its operational environment,
- what are the needs and priorities for further research
work in organisational factors?
*)ORFA "Organisational Factors; their definition and
influence on nuclear safety" is a Concerted Action within
the Nuclear Fission Safety Programme which is running
under the Contract N° ERB FI4S-CT98_0051 of the European
Union between the seven partners VTT Automation, Finland,
CIEMAT, Spain, Nuclear Safety Directorate, United
Kingdom, HSK, Switzerland, IPSN France, Berlin University
of Technology, Germany and SwedPower Ltd, Sweden.
KW - nuclear power plants
KW - electrical safety
KW - safety assessments
KW - safety management
KW - organisational performance
KW - organisational development
KW - organisational assessment
M3 - Report
SN - 951-38-5770-0
T3 - VTT Tiedotteita - Meddelanden - Research Notes
BT - Organisational factors: Their definition and influence on nuclear safety: Final report
PB - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
CY - Espoo
ER -